True Love or True Fog? Changing Forums

[Silver Fox]

Haven't made it over to Surviving quite yet.

Sgctxok, why do I have to start a new thread when I only have 25 pages?

So, The X came to town last weekend to move his LBS (left behind stuff). I greeted him at the door - well, he said hi and I just looked at him with a closed mouth smile. I was dressed up obviously ready to go out - pocketbook on coffee table, car keys in my hand. Ha! Probably my best DBing for what it's worth now.

He walked right to the back room asking "So how much stuff is it?" I thought, you're about to find out buddy. He saw all of it, books, albums (remember those?), magazines, clothes, stacked neatly and he immediately lost his cockiness.

"Wow, I really appreciate you doing this. I can see you put a lot of work into it". I looked him straight in the eyes and said "Yes, I did. I'm going out now, leave the dogs outside and call me when you're leaving."

I left so fast - didn't even give him time to blink.

Barely 3 hours later he left a message that he was leaving, would return tomorrow to finish up and he couldn't thank me enough for organizing everything - it made it so much easier to pack. Damn! Did I make it too easy for him? Oh well, the neatness was really more for my benefit than his. Wanted to make sure he didn't take anything "extra".

Repeat on Sunday. He shows up and I'm dressed and ready to leave. Very few words between us. Did he really think I was going to stay at home and watch him move half my life away?

Why didn't he put it all in a U-Haul like I had suggested in an earlier email? Why is he not taking it all back in one load to the Catbitch house 200 miles away like I assumed he would?

Well, turns out he has a storage unit here in town. He took it to the storage unit. And he's living in another state. Here I am heartsick over the idea of my former H assimilating all the stuff I've been around for 20 years into his new girlfriend's house with all of her stuff. But instead, for reasons only his crazy MLC mind knows, it's all sitting in a storage unit.

And he didn't finish. He'll be back either this weekend or next. Didn't quite get around to telling me when and I haven't heard from him other than a text on Sunday - "Thanks again"